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Oregon Hearing Research Center

About the Oregon Hearing Research Center

Overview

The Oregon Hearing Research Center (OHRC) was founded in 1966 under the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Oregon Health & Science University as the Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory.

The Center currently occupies a 12,259 square-foot facility in the Hatfield Research Center (HRC) and 10,315 square feet in the Medical Research Building (MRB) at OHSU and houses support laboratories for electronics, electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, molecular biology, digital photography and histology.

The OHRC:

Conducts basic and clinical research on the inner ear.

Offers research fellowships to U.S. and foreign scientists.

Trains students and residents in otolaryngology and auditory neuroscience.

Collaborates with colleagues from other OHSU departments, such as the Vollum Institute and the Knight Cancer Institute, and with the Portland VA Medical Center and the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR).

Current research funding comes from the National Institutes of Health, the American Otological Society, the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, NASA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and the Hearing Health Foundation.

Our researchers and our center

If you would like to know more about our research and the researchers at the Oregon Hearing Research Center, please click on the links in the navigation bar above.

If you have any questions, or would like to speak with one of our researchers or staff members, please feel free to contacts us.

Santiago Jaramillo, PhD, Assistant Professor Institute of Neuroscience and Dept of Biology University of Oregon, Eugene will present a seminar entitled, "Neural pathways for auditory cognition in rodents," on April 17, 2015 @ 3:30 pm in the Vollum M1441.

The Vollum Institute and the Oregon Hearing Research Center will co-host a special seminar presented by:

The OHRC Journal Club meets every Tuesday during the academic year from 4-5:00 p.m in MRB 634. This is an opportunity for students, trainees, and principal investigators to discuss current literature in central and peripheral auditory neuroscience. Please check back for topic and speaker schedules.

Thanks everyone for a great 2014-15 year! The OHRC Journal Club will resume next October 2015.